At Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin, Zelenskyy appeals for aid, investment in energy sector [Video]

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy began a week of diplomacy at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin.
• German Chancellor Olaf Scholz supported Zelenskyy’s plea for investments in its energy sector, saying that its development would be mutually beneficial.
• Mustafa Nayyem, the head of Ukraine’s restoration agency, announced his resignation on Monday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system as a conference to gather support for Ukraine’s recovery from the destruction wreaked by Russia’s war opened Tuesday.

Starting a week of intense diplomacy that will also see him travel to the Group of Seven summit of Ukraine’s leading Western allies in Italy and a global peace summit in Switzerland, Zelenskyy also renewed his calls for more help in repelling missile attacks by Russian forces.

The two-day Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin follows up on a similar gathering in London a year ago.

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